We never got to the part where you are not a pest.  Pay for your own membership, as that helps support the organization from which you derive benefits.  

Medianoche sandwich?

I can eat eggs without salt, but not without pepper, so leave the shaker on the table. Restaurant owners sometimes put out pepper grinders, but replacing them when they are stolen can add up, so they go with ground pepper, which had worked for most people for several hundred years.

Possibly a different bigot wouldn’t be so noisy.  That would be a benefit.

An article thesis NEVER in the title is likely to be poorly-informed. This article follows that pattern. It’s the author’s personal feelings without any sort of reference points and he uses terms like “better” or “terrible” casually.  This is column-filler at best. 

Sounds messy, but delicious.

Many (most?) people getting married have had their own apartment for a while and are not in need of things that we want for ourselves.  The probably each have a set of crummy knives and each have a set of ugly dishes. When they merge these two households it will take a while for them to come to the idea that they…

Good reference, but I watched ducks reproduce on a small pond and there was insufficient food for two hatchings of 24 ducklings. The adult ducks could go elsewhere for food, but ducklings can’t fly. The study you referenced was about adult birds and I was writing about ducklings. When the two ladies who were feeding…

Mentions cholesterol three times without giving a measurement and whether or not that measurement is good or bad. If cholesterol in eggs is an issue, it should have been addressed.  Maybe it’s hype from the 1990's? 

I think every seaside restaurant with outdoor dining ought to provide water pistols when they bring out the french fries.  

When you feed birds, they lay more eggs. Then you stop providing food and some of those chicks die of starvation because there isn’t enough food around naturally. Some duck lay as many as 24 eggs when the mama duck is well-fed. Then there isn’t enough natural food around, and the person doing the feeding has found a…

Price out putting down some form of wood for the living room.  It can be surprisingly inexpensive as long as it doesn’t look cheap.  People don’t want to go through the rug removal-replacement process even though it can all happen in about 1 day.  Throw down an area rug,  and you will increase the value of the home…

“...if you made a vegetarian or vegan gravy that has no meat involved in its creation...”  you just defined gravy as relating to the meat cooked, so this would be a sauce.  If you follow your own rules, this isn’t too tricky.

It’s possible to run the microwave at less-than-100%, like 30% or 40% and you don’t get this explosive action of water and hot fat. You can even put a cup of water in the microwave while melting the butter so that the water absorbs most of the energy and once again, avoid the water/fat event. I would hope that this…

Didn’t your mother tell you not to play with food?

You have to clean the strainer, too. This will work, but it does feel like doing it the hard way, which in my family is a long-held tradition. I think it gives you more control on how cooked they are, like sous vide. Will this keep eggs from getting tough?

The purpose of the arrest was publicity, not justice.

It’s unfortunate that we’ve all become inured to sloppy editing. We don’t expect a lot, and that’s what we get.

They not too fond of Clorox, either.

Will Smith, whose career was not characterized by greatness, has been banned from one theater in Los Angeles, one night per year, for ten years. The danger of him being invited back, even as a presenter was pretty low.